We honor 22 titles that bring understanding to people, events, and ideas that shape evangelical life, thought, and mission.

Shadowmancer, Britain's hit fantasy novel, conjures darkness so the light will shine brighter.

Four books try to break, crack, or decode the deception.

What Christian books on the topic are, and are not, communicating.

Thinking Against the Grain asks what it means to think like a Christian.

Water from Stone says Christians are addicted to problem solving, when they should be seeking Christ.

Bad Ground confirms W. Dale Cramer as a bright new voice in faith fiction

A veteran columnist urges his fellow liberals to take a lesson from those nasty conservatives.

The author of the Christian Origins and the Question of God series is also writing a commentary series for the masses.

A new book reminds us to get our heads and hearts together, in the company of the cloud of witnesses.

Lars Saabye Christensen's The Half Brother reveals imagination as escape.

A roundup of the many anti-Da Vinci Code books from Christian publishers.

What other publishers could have done to respond to Dan Brown's bestseller.

The author of Shadowmancer talks about his early interest in the occult, and his later transformation into a clergyman.

The author of A Field Guide to Narnia says Lewis wove pre-Christian ideas into a story for a post-Christian culture.

The author of In the Moon of Red Ponies discusses rejection, perseverance, and the call to write.

Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history.

Marguerite Shuster explores what we have become as sinners.

Seeing Is Believing lays the theological foundation for imaginative prayer.